Ruby is a one of the most popular languages used on the web. We’re running a Session here on Nettuts+ that will introduce you to Ruby, as well as the great frameworks and tools that go along with Ruby development. In this episode, you’ll learn about testing your Ruby code with Rspec, one of the best testing libraries in the business.
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Writing a nifty Chrome Extension honestly isn’t as difficult as you might think. In this tutorial, I’m going to walk you through how I took an API offered by a great domain-name search service, Domai.nr, and created a Chrome extension for them, simply using their API.
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In the red corner, weighing in at just 29Kb (uncompressed), is knockout.js; a pure JavaScript library that simplifies the creation of dynamic user interfaces. Knockout is library agnostic, so it can easily be used with any of the most popular JavaScript libraries already available, but it works particularly well with jQuery, and uses jQuery.tmpl as its default templating engine.
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We all know we should be testing our code, but we don’t actually do it. I guess it’s fair to say that most of us put it off because, nine times out of ten, it means learning yet another concept. In this tutorial, I’ll introduce you to a great little framework for testing your JavaScript code with ease.
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A couple weeks ago, as I began to manually update my stylesheet with all of the various browser prefixes for the new CSS3 properties, I thought to myself, “This is such a waste of time. Surely, there’s an easier way.”
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Even after six years, TextMate is still considered by many to be the best code editor available for Mac. The reason why is simple: it’s incredibly powerful, and offers features that even the newest editors don’t yet offer. Add a robust plugin/bundle community on top of it, and you get one heck of a code editor.
I’ll show you some of my favorite shortcuts and tricks today.
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Web applications need to provide easy-to-use solutions for uploading and manipulating rich content. This process can create difficulties for some users who have minimal photo editing skills. Cropping is one of the most used photo manipulation techniques, and this step-by-step tutorial will cover the entire development process of an image cropping plug-in for the jQuery JavaScript library.
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this Keyword
Today’s tutorial comes courtesy of the extremely talented Cody Lindley, from his latest book: JavaScript Enlightenment. He discusses the confusing this keyword, and the various ways to determine and set its value.
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In this lesson, we’ll use a JavaScript based syntax highlighter to quickly add a syntax highlighting functionality to any web project — even on a simple HTML page!
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I can’t seem to reach the end of the fun stuff you can do with emerging web technologies. Today, I’m going to show you how to do something that—until the last while—has been almost unprecedented: uploading files via AJAX.
Oh, sure, there have been hacks; but if you’re like me, and feel dirty every time you type iframe, you’re going to like this a lot. Join me after the jump!
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